Monday, September 12th 2011
AMD FX Series Processors Up For Pre-Order
At last, AMD's highly-anticipated performance desktop processors, branded under the FX-Series, are up for pre-order, letting buyers book their chips so they could have it up and running on release date. American retailer Bottom-line Telecommunications (BLT) has the FX-8150 and FX-8120 eight-core chips; and FX-6100 six-core chip up for pre-order. Its price for the FX-8150 is US $266.28, the FX-8120 is priced at US $221.73, while the FX-6100 is priced at $188.32. BLT ships over ground for free to the 48 contiguous American states.
The new FX-Series processors are based on AMD's brand new "Bulldozer" micro-architecture, and come in the AM3+ package. The FX-8150 will lead the first wave with its eight cores clocked at 3.60 GHz, 16 MB of total cache (4x 2 MB L2 + 1x 8 MB L3); followed by the FX-8120 at 3.10 GHz, also with 16 MB cache. The FX-6100 six-core processor is clocked at 3.30 GHz, with 14 MB cache (3x 2 MB L2 + 1x 8 MB L3). Market release is expected in October. You can be ready for the new chips by purchasing socket AM3+ motherboards, ideally those based on the AMD 9-series chipset, as they are already available in the market.
Source:
CPU World
The new FX-Series processors are based on AMD's brand new "Bulldozer" micro-architecture, and come in the AM3+ package. The FX-8150 will lead the first wave with its eight cores clocked at 3.60 GHz, 16 MB of total cache (4x 2 MB L2 + 1x 8 MB L3); followed by the FX-8120 at 3.10 GHz, also with 16 MB cache. The FX-6100 six-core processor is clocked at 3.30 GHz, with 14 MB cache (3x 2 MB L2 + 1x 8 MB L3). Market release is expected in October. You can be ready for the new chips by purchasing socket AM3+ motherboards, ideally those based on the AMD 9-series chipset, as they are already available in the market.
77 Comments on AMD FX Series Processors Up For Pre-Order
Could be because the FX chips aren't s competitive as everyone would like.
Or these chips could be winners and they want to undercut the competition.
I am slowly going mad waiting for these cpus to launch!
They did this when Phenom 1 hit maybe why the price drop it will not compete with 2500k-2600k Sandy Bridge but we price to sell it for budget performance.
And going by the price that is rumored, IMO the performance will be a little lower than 2600K.
What worries me are the never ending delays. Which indicate that there are some issues (and at this point I don't believe there are yield issues at all).
But then again AMD has a nice platform for new CPU's in the future. They desperately needed something new to build on rather than constantly tweaking the K10.
AMD could of priced the Sempron expensively. But didn't.
I was referring more to the higher end parts (like the 8 core FX which would be priced at ~$1000 if it was the best out there).
However AMD's architecture was so superior that these low end Semprons often destroyed the much higher clocked Pentium 4s.
AMD still priced, these low end Semprons below the Celerons, likewise the AMD Athlon 64s were priced also way below the significantly slower Pentium 4s.That is because the 2600k is high end but they've branded their enthusiast high end part as "Extreme Edition" so customers will find it hard to justify a $1,000 pricetag for a non Extreme Edition product. However the i7 Extreme Edition is also high end and beats everything AMD currently has out and is $1,000.
Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GH...
I do see your point and it does have merit. But I'm just pointing out that AMDs performance has rarely ever reflected it's pricing. AMD have always been cheaper than Intel regardless of the performance gap. So saying Bulldozer is slow because of its low price holds little weight.
So apparently the delay-news were mumble-yumble or what?
I was comparing the BD to the Phenom II x6... it IS smaller than that.
I don't think it's right at all to assume that just because AMD's pricing is lower that means AMD have lost the battle. Tons of other possibilities.
And they have the i7-950 1366 at $322.49 so you may want to consider taking their prices with a grain of salt.
I've seen Etailer's like this collect orders and process them, only to turn around and Email that the order is cancelled and that’s that. I don’t see why anyone would pre-order at this point. To me it more disinformation from whom or what for who knows, but legit that kind of tell me it less end of the month, I can’t see AMD permitting a distributor to list price and let that stew for a month that just bad stunt. I say BLT is a nothing-nobody, they got wind of some pricing (could be fake or divisionary) and took it upon themselves drive a little increase in traffic... could hurt. This honestly means nothing other than btarunr hoping for a little extra traffic here a tPU. :shadedshu
What ever price they actually go on sale for, it means that is the price AMD thinks will make them the most profit.
Performance remains to be seen.
before i take the plunge. I've waited THIS LONG so a couple weeks wont hurt.It seems that
new cpu's and mobo's are comming out more and more frequently now. Like every six
months.It be a shame to pony up some dough for a new cpu and mobo just so that a new set
hits next week n shit:laugh::nutkick:. i see it all the time. i hope all the rumors are not true.
Here's to AMD kikin some Intel ass!:rockout: